Freeheart

Have I treated today as precious?

This is a question posed in a practice my friend Gene Long (a.k.a "Freeheart") told me he's just taken up. He bought a bunch of gold dollar coins, and made up a rule -- by the end of each day, one of those dollars has to be gone. The rule is that he needs to spend it, give it away, or throw it away. Whatever he does, though, that dollar must be gone. He plans to stack up 3 or 4 years' worth of these coins in plain view, so that he can see the piles dwindle, one coin at a time.

Like the guy in the Guinness commercials, I cried out, "brilliant".